Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Fermoy , County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fermoy
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.13746, -8.26154
- SMR number
- CO035-132----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the foot of a steep N-facing slope, a pit-burial was uncovered during archaeological testing in advance of construction along the route of the proposed N8 Rathcormac-Fermoy Bypass (O'Connell 2006h, 59).
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.